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Socialism meets mind control with an explanation from academics

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The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world  built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this just about to make us think about lol and slightly different way so maybe tonight cuz of questions about what the the real limits and Bounds when I run yeah you see this the scene at the end of the best movie when everyone's moving around in a full of Tom like laying Neo Seafood yummy Wonder in that sense is a white so that nice of a whiteness being to me more like a social and political Notions I don't look at the Dory of the Matrix as being literally a story of man versus donkey much more about the robots in the machines in the computers represent rigid thinking institution life control which people generally allow themselves to be subjected to you have a social critique on the outside dialectical materialism the sort of marks filtered through I'll West about the irony is is that is in the Matrix people are the means of production eventually this great symbol of people being batteries while they sleep their bodies are batteries that power the city of the the robots and this whole mechanical Society very powerful symbol this people in a when they're completely asleep to what's going on around them are exploited to that extent they're giving up their very lifeport to run the society in a lot of ways when we become passive consumerist know we're surrendering our life force you are a slave Neo  like everyone else you were born into bondage born in person that you cannot smell or taste Cornel West is written about how black people can see themselves through white eyes they don't see themselves with their own eyes as authentic human beings they are being themselves to a free market ideas given by The Edge mystic white plastic I think that idea which the Wachowski Brothers have read take me to hot and cool breaking as one of the strands in this Multiplex  Christmas that people break Me Out song most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many of them are so inner so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it be suspicious of all forms of authority in one car to be suspicious of all forms of obedience that require certain kind of blind submission to the only thing that we know for certain is that nothing is certain idea goes back in some for me to Socrates the Socrates was famous for saying that he didn't know in particular was virtue was and he wasn't sure they but he did and it once like you said fraps only God knows this Socratic wisdom famously is knowing that you do not know and knowing the limits of recognition of the limits of our knowledge seems to be foundational for beginning to remedy that condition but something wrong with the world don't know what it is but it today like a splinter in your mind driving me mad  it is the semen that has brought you to The Matrix sixties and sucking interviewer precisely the same way that the allegory of the cave section the reader allegory of the cave appears Central book of Plato's Republic we discover the Dara prisoners who've been found from infancy to a single place in a dark Cavern what they see is the interior of a cave wall and Onnit or projected shadow images from a fire find them if Fresno don't know their prisoners don't think their present this is the only reality that they've ever known this level of reality Play-Doh and his men Socrates equate to the level of reality at bottom the life you live is not in fact the totality of what is possible for you and if you could Release Yourself from bonds you don't even say you would then be able to see the world as a Trulia Neo situation in The Matrix we have Trinity and Morpheus reaching out to Neo bring him through his own choice into being danger in this case unplugged what is the news it means buckle your seatbelt Dorothy because Kansas is going bye-bye

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